Ashwell

(Leicestershire)

A haunt of the treaclejar, a nocturnal bird
that gathered in flocks around the 'treacle-dips', which were
holes in the ground where a sweet, watery treacle oozed to the
surface.It attracted insects, birds, foxes and on Rogation Sunday,
at the 'beating of
the bounds' ceremonies, the parish priest would stop at a treacle
well on the boundary line- where walkers sampled the sweet waters.